Twilight Sparkle And Friends
Three Young Creatures/Bonus: The Thrifty Dragon
Previous ChapterNext ChapterThe government of Equestria had decided to run a social experiment and by social experiment they basically meant pick 3 different creatures in this case a pony, hippogriff and dragon, sent them outside of their homelands to the outskirts of ponyville and make them build their own houses.
First up we have the pink female hippogriff with a snorkel, being the only non anthro of the subjects she’s the most naive, inexperienced, airhead, etc due to hippogriffs making peace with the ponies and dragons very recently meaning that she still has a lot to learn and explore about surface world that is Equestria.
“I built my house of clams, I built my house of shells, I play my flute I don’t give a fluke and play around all day.” she claimed putting in the last clam before grabbing the conch shell she used as a flute and started playing it.
Next up we have the male earth pony, with a teal mane and miner outfit, he was your typical earth pony, somewhat of a hard worker and at least puts some effort into his house, since earth ponies often rely on construction companies to built their homes for them.
“I built my house of crystal, I built my house of shards with a hey diddle, diddle I play on the diddle and play all kinds of jigs.” he said hammering in the last shard of crystal, hopping down the wooden ladder, grabbing his violin he mistook for a fiddle and started playing which sounded a little pitchy.
Finally we have the dragoness, with orange scales and construction outfit and helmet. Dragons had always been extra safe when it came to security which explains why they suffered less casualties than the ponies during the war. In this case the orange dragoness built her house with a very specific brand of cement and paint.
“I built my house of stones, I built my house of rocks, I have no chance to sing and dance for work and play don’t mix.” She said before continuing to scoop up cement and place down stones and rocks.
Meanwhile Snorkelergriff now finished with her actual house decided to add some final touches in the form of a coral chair and doormat. She then picked up her conch flute and started playing a tune while walking down the trail.
A few feet or hooves later she came across Minerpony whose final touch to his crystal house was a red ruby above the door since he believed it was good luck. As soon as he saw the hippogriff he picked up his fiddle and started playing along.
Another few hooves or feet down the trail later both creatures came across a fence and found Practical Dragon still working on her house.
“She don’t take no time to play, time to play, time to play all she does is work all day.” The duo taunted followed by them playing their instruments. “You can play and laugh and fiddle don’t think you can make me sore, I’ll be safe and you’ll be sorry when the griff comes to your door.” Practical countered
The pony and hippogriff simply burst into laughter from the dragoness’ warning. Both creatures have heard about griffons in general and a specific griffon nicknamed the Big Bad Griffon, capable of destroying houses, master of disguise, appetite for eating other creatures and was the griffon they assumed Practical Dragon was talking about. Both had brushed off the stories about this Big Bad Griffon and griffons in general as myths since griffons are very rare creatures.
“Who’s afraid of The Big Bad Griff, Big Bad Griff, Big Bad Griff who’s afraid of The Big Bad Griff.” Both creatures sung followed by them playing melody on their instruments.
They both went hand in claw and started walking in circles, unknowingly to them a blue male non-anthro griffon with yellow accents, golden armor and holding a bag that was labeled 0C377US was sneaking behind trees and licked his beak once he saw Snorkler and Miner.
“Who’s afraid of The Big Bad Griff, Big Bad Griff, Big Bad Griff who’s afraid of The Big Bad Griff.” Both creatures sung followed by the melody. “I’ll punch him in the beak.” The hippogriff claimed throwing an air punch “I’ll break his nails.” The pony added kicking the air
“I’ll stomp him on the trail.” Snorkler said stomping on of her hind hooves “We’ll put on the rail.” Miner said followed by both creatures holding their instruments like machine guns.
All of a sudden the blue griffon poked his head out from behind a tree, and as soon as the 2 creatures saw him they freaked out and ran away. The griffon simply laughed before jumping through the tree snapping in half and chasing after them.
Miner successfully made it and ran into his crystal house Snorkler on the other hand tripped on her way to her house and when The Big Bad Griffon grabbed her she was luckily able to slip out of his grasp and make it into her clam house, she came out for a brief second to bring her coral welcome mat inside as a sign at The Big Bad Griffon was not welcomed inside.
Once The Big Bad Griffon arrived at the female hippogriff’s door he first tried to push it open to no avail.
“OPEN THE DOOR AND LET ME IN!” The griffon demanded “Not by a thread on my tail!” Snorkler responded having barricaded her coral door with all her coral furniture.
“Fine then, I’ll soar and I’ll roar and I’ll blow your house in!” he threatened, he then flew into the air, inhaled, puffing up his chest before letting out a roar which blew away all the furniture, clams breaking them in half and shells shattering them to pieces leaving only the door behind.
The hippogriff immediately took notice of her surroundings and her first course of action for some reason was to open the severed door which just resulted in The Big Bad Griffon pouncing at her breaking down the door and then resume to chase after her.
Miner peeked his head out of his door to check if the coast was clear, only to find Snorkler run right past him and into his house, as soon as he saw The Big Bad Griffon he slammed and locked the door in the blue griffon’s face causing him to crash into it a full speed crooking his beak a little. Both creatures then flipped a crystal table on it’s side and hid behind it like soldiers hiding behind a wall or trench.
The blue griffon first started rattling the door knob followed by him pulling on the doorknob and finally he started slamming his face against the door.
“Curses!” The Big Bag Griffon muttered, he stood there for a while before finally getting an idea “Well they’re too smart for me guess I’ll leave.” he said before flying over the fence and flapping his wings, each time softer to make it sound like he was flying away from the crystal house.
“He’s gone!” Both creatures said in union “Who’s afraid of The Big Bad Griff, Big Big Griff, Big Bad Griff.
Meanwhile outside the house the griffon opened his bag labeled 0C377US and out came a light blue non-anthro female changeling with blue eyes, an experiment he stole from Canterlot which is where he also got, stole his armor.
“Hey Ocellus I know you have trouble changing into other creatures that’s why this time I want you to turn into an air pump.” The blue Griffon requested.
“What type of air pump?” Ocellus asked before switching between different type of air pumps notably a bike pump and air canister.
“Stop that one’s good.” The griffon said settling on a small air canister with a small tube connected to it and a pacifier tip to inhale the air.
The lion bird then tipped clawed over to the door, put the pacifier in his mouth and started taking in the air. “Who’s afraid of The Big Bad Griff, Big Bad Griff.” Which was followed by a knock causing Snorkler and Miner to retreat back behind the crystal table “Who’s there?”
“I’m a poor little colt with no place to go please open the door and let me in.” The griffon said in a light voice which is what he mostly imagined his voice would sound like if he reformed.
“Not by our lumps you can’t fools us with that air pump.” Snorkler and Miner said in union pointing at their throats, showing that they’re nervous about this whole situation.
“WHY YOU!” The Big Bad Griffon yelled at Ocellus causing her to turn back to her original form and run back into the bag even though it wasn’t even her fault that the 2 creatures didn’t fall for his voice trick.
“I’ll soar and I’ll roar and I’ll blow your house in.” He threatened, inhaling puffing up his chest before releasing a roar which blew away all the crystal since they were held together by tape and some parts held together by a whole bottle of glue. All shards do crystal shattered to pieces when they hit the floor leaving Snorkler and Miner hanging onto a single beam with a huge slab above them.
The griffon pounced at them missing, luckily before he could grab them the crystal slab slid down the pole and hit the blue lion bird in the head shattering the slab to pieces and giving the pony and hippogriff a chance to escape.
The Big Bad Griffon quickly caught up to them and grabbed their tails trying to stop them only to crash into a orange tree causing a pile of the fruit to fall and him and when he looked up a rotten one fell directly on his face.
Both creatures scampered to Practical’s stone house, the dragoness gratefully letting them in. Once inside the pony and hippogriff flipped the dragoness bed on its side and hid behind it. Only the frame was made out of stones and rocks the rest was made out of the typical material.
Practical quickly locked the door with a chain lock. “See I told what will happen when that Big Griff came around, only rocks and stones are griff proof, now at last you’re safe and sound.” She said before sitting on a stone stool and start playing the piano that just like the bed only the frame was made out of stones and rocks, the keys and sheet music weren’t.
“Who’s afraid of The Big Bad Griff, Big Bad Griff, Big Bad Griff, Who’s afraid of The Big Bad Griff.” All 3 creatures sung, which was followed by a knock causing Snorklergriff and Ponyminer to crash into each other before going back to their hiding spot.
Practical Dragon quickly walked over to the door “What Is it?” She asked
“Hey Dragon, you know being a griffon and all I explore a lot and one thing I found was a crystal and gem mine and I know how much you dragons love crystals, I’ll take you tomorrow at 6:00 in the morning, here’s a map ” The Big Bad Griffon said before sliding a picture of the mine and a map to it under the door.
The dragoness knew that this was one of the griffon’s trick to catch and eat her but didn’t expect for him to be serious about the gem and crystal mine.
“Alright Griffon I accept.” The orange dragoness stated “Remember 6 am!” The lion bird reminded her.
The next morning Practical made sure to wake up at 5am. She grabbed a pickaxe and helmet from Miner who was still hiding behind her bed along with Snorkler which forced the dragoness to sleep in a hammock.
She grabbed the map to the mine and headed out the door to find it still basically nighttime except the fact it was a little brighter than the average night.
Along the way she poured leftover cement on the trail to find her way back in case she got lost. Cement was the best option since food like bread crumbs or popcorn would just get eaten and other things like flour and baking sofa would just get blown away by the wind.
Once arriving at the mine, she quickly filled the barrel with as many gem and crystal she could find. When she started heading home she ate some of them along the way, when she actually got home the barrel was technically still full since she only ate the small pile at the top.
By the time The Big Bad Griffon arrived at the dragoness house even holding a pickaxe and mining helmet to make it look authentic, Practical had almost eaten all the gemstones and crystals.
“Alright dragon I’ve got my pickaxe and helmet you ready to go?” He asked “Sorry Griff i already went to the mine.” She informed the lion bird even opening the door a little and showing a gemstone to prove it.
The blue griffon got angry, he then snapped the pickaxe in half and stepped on the mining helmet shattering the headlight and badly denting it in frustration. He then flew as far he could away from the stones and rocks house to a cliff where he inhaled very deeply even causing his golden armor chest plate to fall off and let out a massive yell.
He put his chest plate back on and flew back to the Three Young Creature’s house trying to think of a new plan to trick the Practical Dragon before looking over to the orange tree which reminded him of another location he visited.
“Hey dragon, I also know of this fruit tree nearby that has a lot more than just oranges, I’ll take you there tomorrow at 5 here’s a map” The griffon said sliding another map under the door
Practical didn’t expect The Big Bad Griffon to adapt to her strategy so quickly which meant that she’ll have to mess up her sleep schedule if she want to avoid being eaten.
“Alright Griffon although that sound less exciting than the gemstone and crystal mine, I’m up from some fruit picking.” The dragoness responded
The next morning just like last time she woke up a hour early at 4am the darkness has basically become amplified. She left a trail of wet cement behind as she headed for the fruit tree. Unfortunately the fruit tree was farther than she expected even flying it still took her a long time to get there.
She picked the last fruit off the tree when The Big Bad Griffon arrived at the tree turns out that before he flew to the dragoness house he decided to check up on the fruit tree to make sure it was still good.
“Hey dragon did you get here before me?…well what do you think of the fruit here compared to the orange one back home ?” He asked trying to sound nice and trustworthy to the dragon.
“They’re very nice they look a lot more fresh and ripe than the oranges back home.” She responded “Hey since they’re fresh and ripe and I picked them all go get it!” The dragoness said throwing an apple so fast that it managed to roll over a large hill.
“Oh fresh and ripe!” The griffon said flying after the fresh red apple. Once the Bad Griffon was over the hill and out of site Practical slid down and tree and was about to fly off before noticing that he had left his 0C377US bag behind.
She knocked on the bag “Hey whatever or whoever you are either way, I know that the Big Bad Griffon put you there against your own will, do me a favour and stall him as long as possible while I fly back home.” She said looking around a waiting for a response.
“I hate the griffon he always yells at and blames me if one of his plan involving me doesn’t work.” Ocellus responded
“Find a way to stall him” the orange dragoness said before flying off with a box full of fresh ripe fruit.
“Got the apple!” The Big Bad Griffon said flying back to the tree only to find the Practical Dragon gone. He then reached into the bag, pulled Ocellus out of it, took his golden helmet off and screamed into the bag.
“Hey I saw the dragon try to hide in the tree.” Ocellus lied to the griffon. “Why that little..” he trailed off before flying into the tree trying to find the dragoness.
The next day The Big Bad Griffon came back to the stone and rocks house with a brand new plan. “Hey dragon I saw a poster for the Rainbow Falls Traders Exchange it opens later this afternoon.
And just like the other 2 times Practical left an hour early, took a gemstone to trade and shortly arrived at the Exchange. Once there she decides to trade her gemstone for a contraption that resembled a small barrel with a TNT label and a wooden handle on top that can be pushed up and down.
As the dragoness was leaving the Traders Exchange she spotted the Big Bad Griffon approaching looking around the area. Since she was there for barely 15 minutes she assumed the armored griffon had caught onto her strategy.
Deciding not to go back into the Traders Exchange knowing the griffon would try to look for her and instead decided to pop the lid off the contraption, climb inside and place the lid back on. In doing so this unintentionally tipped it over and caused it to roll down the hill toward the Big Griffon.
When the griffon saw the big wooden thing rolling towards him at first he didn’t think much of it but as it got closer he saw the TNT label on it he freaked out and ran away leaving his bag behind but then coming back a few moments later to grab it before running away then flying off.
Later that day he arrives back at the dragoness, this time with no real plan. “Hey dragon I just came here to tell about this very bad experience I had with this big wooden thing rolling down the hill, pretty sure it was a barrel full of TNT based on the label.” The griffon explained
Practical just ends up finding his story absolutely hilarious. “If that’s what scared you, I’m what scared you fool. I was in that wooden barrel that whole time. While it may haven’t been my intention to frighten you it was an unfortunate byproduct of my decision to get in there.”
This speech ends up making the the blue griffon angry he’s about to threaten the dragoness before remembering one last trick up his sleeve. He flew a few feet or hooves from the stone house and flappped his wings each time lighter to make it sound like he’s flying away.
“Alright you 2 he’s gone!” The construction dragoness informed Snorkler and Miner who came out behind the dragon’s bed. She then sat down on her stone stool and started playing the piano again.
“Who’s afraid of The Big Bad Griff, Big Bad Griff, Big Bad Griff, Who’s afraid of The Big Bad Griff.” All 3 creatures sung, which was interrupted by a knock causing Snorkler and Miner to crash into each other before going back behind Practical’s bed.
Practical walked up to the door “Who’s there?” She asked
“Yak sell brush, offer dragon free sample.” The Big Griffon said in a yak accent also dressed as a female one with a mask, fur coat and small blanket on his back and holding Ocellus disguised as a brush. The plan was to get Practical to grab the brush and once she does he’ll break through the door and grab her and have Ocellus grab the other 2.
“Thank you” the dragoness said grabbing the brush from him. “NOW I GOTCHA!” the griffon yelled failing to break through the door due to the chain and resorted to reach a claw inside to try and grab her.
The construction dragon hit the griffon hind paw with the brush causing him to jolt back. She then hit him in the top of the head, then pulled the welcome mat from under him causing the yak mask to crack, before throwing the brush at him.
“YOU DUMB BUG!” The Bad Griffon yelled at Ocellus causing her to turn back. The griffon then threw the fur coat and mask off. “By the scales on your tail, I’ll soar and I’ll roar and I’ll blow your house in.” He threatened before inhaling very deeply, puffing up his chest and letting out a roar which caused all his armor to start sliding off.
The first one didn’t do anything cause turns out the specific brand of cement and paint Practical used was griff proof meaning that no matter how hard he tried the lion bird couldn’t blow the stones and rocks house down.
Each time The Big Bad Griffon Bird would roar at the house in a vain to try and blow it down, the dragoness would play a tune on her piano. At some point by the time all his armor had slid off his body, he let out of a roar so long that it made his face turn purple. He then resorted to try pulling on the doorknob to try and open the door, each time followed by another tune on Practical’s piano.
Giving up on entering through the front door he flew onto the roof where he found the stone chimney, looking down it to make sure it was an entrance to the house. When the griffon climb in Practical heard this and saw her big pot of boiling water, she popped the lid off. grabbed a canister of lava and poured it into the pot.
Finally the Big Bad Griffon Bird came down the chimney and as soon as he landed in the lava pot it took him a second to realize before yelling out in pain flying upwards smashing through the chimney, grabbing his bag before running away yelling in pain.
Snorkler and Miner heard this, came out of their hiding spot and started laughing “Who’s afraid of The Big Bad Griff, Big Bad Griff, Big Bad Griff. Who’s afraid of the Big Bad Griff.” The trio of creatures. To mess with them Practical knocked on her piano making it sound like the lion bird’s back which caused her 2 new friends to go back behind her bed.
Disclaimer: The following cartoon despite being a simple edited version of an already existing cartoon Three Little Fillies, it is not intended for foals, it was made for political purposes to promote and raise awareness of war bonds in a entertaining ways for our citizens
General Seaspray and General Bulletproof, Seaspray just the military leader of the hippogriffs, and Bulletproof both the military and political leader of the ponies arrived at Ember's stone house where she was putting down the last few bricks on her chimney, despite the dragoness not holding any important political role, she was a important figure for contributing to the war efforts.
“She don’t take no time to play, time to play, time to play all she does is work all day.” The hippogriff and pony taunted finally getting Ember's attention.
"You wanna sing and dance? While there's danger all about? you should get your houses tyrant-proof, bricks like these will keep her out." Ember claimed showing the other 2 leaders bricks with War Savings Certificate on them.
“Who’s afraid of The Big Bad Wolf, Big Big Wolf, Big Bad Wolf, Who's afraid of The Big Bad Wolf." The 2 creatures sung, since the tyrant Ember was warning them about had a nickname which was Wolf.
In a nearby forest, a pink pegasus with a yellow, pink and purple mane and tail popped her head out from behind a tree. This was Mi Amore Cadenza or Cadance the leader/dictator of the Crystal Empire the country the ponies, dragons and hippogriffs were at war against along with the Empire's ally the Changelings.
She was wearing, crystal guard armor, except she replaced the helmet with a general hat with a Crystal Heart emblem on it and also wore a armband on her right arm with another Crystal Heart emblem on it, she then sneaked over to another tree revealing her to be holding a suitcase with another Crystal Heart Emblem on it.
"Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf." Bullet and Sea sung before spotting The Wolf sending them both into a panic. The unicorn quickly made it into his fabric tent house as for Seaspray he tripped and Cadance almost grabbed him but luckily he managed to slip out of her grasp and quickly run inside his cloud house where he barricaded the door with wooden boards.
Cadance tried to open the door before giving up "I'll huff and i'll puff and i'll BLOW YOUR HOUSE IN!" The pegasus threatened, inhailing deeply before letting out a gust of wind that easily blew away all the cloud leaving Seaspray in a pile of boards. The Wolf pounced at him again almost grabbing him, only to hit her head on a board allowing the hippogriff to get away and run into Bulletproof's house.
She ran after him only to get crashed right into the door, behind the door Bullet and Sea were hiding behind barb wire. "i'll huff and i'll puff and I'LL BLOW YOUR HOUSE IN!" Cadance threatened inhaling and releasing another gust of wind that blew away all the fabric leaving behind 4 metal poles and a pile of barb wire.
The Wolf pounced at the leaders only to get caught in the barb wire letting the pony and hippogriff to escape and run into Ember's house where the dragoness locked the door with a chain lock.
"WHY YOU!" Cadance yelled trying to open the door "By the scales on your tail i'll huff and i'll puff and i'll BLOW YOUR HOUSE IN!" the pegasus threatened, releasing another gust of wind that despite breaking the first layer of wall off, did nothing against the Certificate bricks, at some point she let out a gust so long it made her face turn purple.
"These bricks not only stop her blowing!" Ember said picking one up from a leftover pile "They will also get her going!" she said, before she started throwing multiple bricks at the Wolf which end up chasing her away."
"Who's afraid of the Big Bad Wolf, Big Bad Wolf, Big Bad Wolf, we'll be safe from The Big Bad Wolf if you lend your savings." The trio of creatures sung, which was followed by an ad for war bonds.
Author's Note
I count the three little pigs as Mickey Mouse characters
This was written as a break from the more complicated chapters I’m working on right now
I know the rhyming isn’t the best
Number one was very calm so she built her house of clams. with a hey hey toot she blew on her flute and played around all day. Number two didn't work so hard so he built his house of shards, hey diddle diddle he played on his fiddle and danced with mare. Number 3 said mix on tricks i'll build my house of rocks she had no chance to sing and dance cause work and play don't mix.
The Thrifty Pig is the only propaganda cartoon that's in universe every other propaganda cartoon i write isn't
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